The subjects under TVL track strictly follow TESDA’s rules, ensuring workplace-ready students. In fact, every TVL strand helps students acquire job-ready skills. The TVL track does not only guarantee skills but also ensures employment, backed by TESDA certifications: Certificate of Competency (COC) and National Certifications (NC). So, for students who want to get hired right away in the field of agriculture, electronics, or trading, TVL track is for you.
Agri-Fishery strand offers subjects that are included in the field productions. These include agriculture, horticulture, and aquaculture. Others also include food processing and various material production. Here are the specializations of the Agri-Fishery strand.
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Strand. The ICT strand is best for students who want to take computer science and its related degrees in college. In fact, this is perfect for tech-savvy students who are fond of using technological tools to foster their skills.
While the ICT strand focuses on technology, the HE strand focuses on livelihood projects such as caregiving, cookery, bartending, baking, handicraft making, tourism, housekeeping, dressmaking, and such. This strand will greatly help students find jobs immediately. These are the HE strand specializations you will get.
The Information and Communication Technology strand of the TVL track is aimed at providing students with highly technical computer and digital skills.
The Industrial Arts strand of the TVL track is focused on providing students with hands-on practical training in various industrial activities such as, but not limited to:
The Home Economics strand of the TVL track offers classes and training in a wide variety of specialized economic activities that students can do from home.
The Agri-Fishery Arts strand of the TVL track is a specialized strand designed as preparation for students wishing to enter the Agricultural and Fishery industries, either as researchers or as entrepreneurs.
One of the more specialized strands in the TVL track, the TVL Maritime strand of the TVL track prepares students for a career in the maritime industry. The TVL Maritime is different from the Pre-Baccalaureate Maritime strand of the STEM track in that the TVL strand focuses primarily on support level programs and Ratings Forming a Watch program.
TVL stands for Technical-Vocational-Livelihood, and the TVL Track is one of the two tracks offered in senior high school; the other one is the Academic Track. Simplistically speaking, the Academic Track is supposed to prepare junior high school students for college, while the TVL Track is supposed to prepare junior high school students ...
TESDA training courses are integrated into the TVL Track. So while in senior high, you can gain the requisite COCs (Certificates of Competency) and NCs (National Certifications) that will enhance your employability later on. So right out of senior high, you’d have the certifications that would land you the better jobs.
The TVL Track in senior high is a viable option, and it is an option no one must discount for the 8 reasons stated above. No one could have expressed it better than former TESDA Director General Joel Villanueva when he said (with regards to technical vocational education and training),
College is not for everyone . While everyone may want to go to college – and that’s highly improbable – of those who do want to go to college, not everyone can or will be able to do so. To be sure, the idea of going to college must seem more attractive than technical-vocational options.
TVL-HE is designed to develop students’ skills useful for livelihood projects at home. It provides a curriculum that is a combination of core courses required for all SHS strands and specialized hands-on courses that meet the standard hour requirement and competency-based assessment of TESDA.
TVL-ICT is designed for computer-savvy students. In this strand, students also take the core courses and the specialized hands-on courses where they will be trained to utilize information and communication tools.